It IS All About You

I got this in my email, and it really explains the "reason for the season".

This is from my pastor's journal, and I just love how he describes how much God loves each and every single one of us. It is a short read. Please take a couple of minutes to take a breath and remember exactly what we are celebrating right now.

It's All About You


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Tag--Christmas Style

I was tagged by Suzi.

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags?
Wrapping paper with a few gift bags.

2. Real tree or artificial?
Artificial. I have never had a real tree, but I think I would like one someday.

3. When do you put up the tree?
Usually on the Sunday after Thanksgiving while David watches football. However, this year we put it up on the day before~~Saturday.

4.When do you take the tree down?
On the day after our last "Christmas" is. I'm usually ready to have my house back to normal.

5. Do you like eggnog?
yes

6. Favorite gift received as a child?
A Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader jacket. I wore it all day. I also took the tag off of it and strung a ribbon through it so I could wear it as a necklace. The tag was a picture of a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader.

7. Do you have a nativity scene?
No. Not unless you count Reagan's Fisher Price Little People nativity scene. I'm still looking for the perfect one for us.

8. Easiest person to buy for?
My two sisters.

9. Hardest person to buy for?
The men in my life--my brother, brother-in-law, dad, father-in-law, and David.

10. Worst Christmas gift you ever received?
I can't think of anything really horrible.

11. Mail or e-mail Christmas cards?
Mail

12. Favorite Christmas movie?
A Christmas Carol~~The one with Patrick Stewart, or the one with the Muppets. :)

13. When do you start shopping for Christmas?
Right after Thanksgiving. But this year I've had a very slow start.

14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present?
I don't think so.

15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas?
Fudge and crescent rolls.

16. Clear lights or colored on the tree?
Clear

17. Favorite Christmas song?
O Holy Night! Reagan's favorite this year is The 12 Dogs of Christmas (really cute book).

18. Travel at Christmas or stay home?
We will always wake up in our house on Christmas morning. But we usually switch up the traveling/staying at home thing yearly.

19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer?
Yes because I have a 3 year old that loves Santa's reindeer. Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donder, Blitzen, Rudolph. And Olive the other reindeer.

20. Angel on the tree top, or a star?
A star which I really, really love. It is handmade from one of our friends. I LOVE it!!!

21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or Christmas morning?
Christmas morning and day and night and the day after

22. Most annoying thing about this time of year?
The cat trying to eat our artificial tree. And the lights falling off our windows.

23. What I love most about Christmas?
Seeing the excitement and magic through Reagan's eyes, and remembering my Christmas's from when I was little.

I tag: Emily, Ali, Tina, (her first tag!) and Becky (you can finish your finals first)!!! You're it!!!!

Thankful for the Little Things

It was my night to put Reagan to bed tonight. I was guiding him through his prayer tonight. It went something like this:

Me: Dear, God. Thank you for Daddy. Thank you for our family and friends. Thank you for helping Reagan feel better. Reagan, what do you want to thank God for?

Reagan: White.

Me: Thank you, God, for light.

Reagan: No. White the color.

Me: Oh. Thank you, God, for white.

Reagan: And yellow.

Me: And yellow.

Reagan (talking very quickly): And thank you for red. Red is like a monster. A monster with one eye. A triangle monster with snappy fingers. (He begins to snap his hands like crab claws.)

Me: Thank you, God, for red.

Reagan: Amen.

Um, ok. (I think God may have said "Um, ok" too.)

Elfin' Fun

This is just too silly, but I love it. Go check us out:

The Babbitt Elves

Please share if you decide to elf your family too!!!

A contest

I didn't win a prize for doing NaBloPoMo.

Hey!! You know what? I can't say that. I may not have won a prize that was listed on the NaBloPoMo website, but I did "win" something. I enjoyed blogging everyday in November. I LOVED reading everyone else's posts. And I learned more about my blogging friends.

Anyways, I thought I'd enter this contest that Emily told us about. (next I'm going to try and elf my family)

Visit Teeny Manolo. That's all you have to do.

Man of the House

David is away tonight on business. I'm in charge, but Reagan is the man of the house.

However, the man is not himself this week. He has had a wonderful attitude all week (the 3 days so far), but he hasn't napped. This is driving me nutty. I LIVE for those 3 to 3 1/2 hours of "alone" time. But lately I have been spending 2 hours in the afternoon listening to banging and laughing and screaming coming from the front room of our house.

I know some of you may be thinking "maybe he's ready to give up his nap". I don't think so. Maybe I'm in denial, but I don't think a kid can go from napping 3 1/2 hours daily to napping 0 hours.

So the man had to be taken care of this evening (instead of taking care of the rest of us) because he was exhausted. And on top of that, the man has a cough. The cough doesn't seem to be bothering him all that much because he's happy and playful, but he coughed so much today that I think it wore his little man body out.

By the way, a tired man of the house equals an exhausted mommy in charge.

Crazy, strange, weird

Background info: Reagan had a busy day filled with playgroup, spending time at Barnes and Noble (which involved lots of reading and playing with the train table), and playing at home with me. But he didn't nap for some reason. He decided that nap time today would be better spent playing loudly in his room. So that made for one crazy kiddo this evening. Funny thing about kids...they seem to have 10x the energy while they are exhausted rather than when they are well rested. (David and I have already had our "adult" eggnog this evening due to this phenomena.)

More background info: After his bath, I needed to comb Reagan's hair. I said, "I need to fix your hair so it doesn't dry funky." He asked what that meant, and I told him "crazy, strange, or weird". Then I told him in a whisper, "Go tell Daddy he's funky." And he did.

And he did it again. And again. And again. And over and over. Remember~~10x the energy.

So this video is only 1/2 as cute as Reagan was the first 8 times he did this. But you get the idea.